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Tag: anxiety
Empowerment Through Awareness: Confronting Self-Limiting Beliefs
Self-limiting beliefs is a concept that comes up particularly in the self help area with some frequency. It seems easy enough to understand, but for the hard things in life I’ve never heard or found a way to overcome them. Until just recently. I came to understand self-limiting beliefs differently and that opened the door…
Why Negative Feelings Linger: The unwanted Power of Rumination
When you have an outstanding performance and everybody loves it, you feel delighted and can’t stop talking about it for weeks. On the other hand, when something goes terribly wrong, you’ll remember it for years. You’ll be in your old age and still remember that day you were terrible at doing something. Having acknowledged that…
When Success Feels Stolen: The Battle Against Impostor Syndrome
“I’m not good enough for this.” “What am I doing here?” “I’ve got everything I have by luck.” “What if they find out I’m not that good?” “I’m a fraud. I don’t know how to do this.” Have any of these thoughts ever crossed your mind? How many times? Having second thoughts or developing a…
Do stress it. How to find the right level of stress
Most of us start to feel anxious, nervous, before a chance to speak in public. It is the stress kicking in, and you want to get rid of it. Yet, should you? Stress is a normal human reaction. Our body is designed to experience it and produce physical and psychological responses to its symptoms. It…
Positive Imagery to ward off anxiety
When anxiety kicks in, we all tend to imagine the worst scenarios. Usually, in our anxious minds, there is always danger around the corner. This is what happens in your imagination before a presentation. The imagination is a powerful tool. You can travel to infinite places inside your mind, and it has a true impact…
5 Rituals to Prep for your next speech
We use rituals in so many areas of our lives. Previously most associated with religion, but now used much more broadly, we see benefits from practicing specific actions in a sequence to get us into a certain physical and mental state. The wonderful thing about rituals and routines that I’ve noticed, is that over time,…
This is how anxiety medication interfere with your speech
The number of people taking anxiety medication around the world is bigger than ever. The prescriptions increased a lot in the late years, and it has an impact on your whole life. Have you ever consider what impact it may have on your presentations? Anxiety in Numbers Anxiety disorders are, currently, the most common mental…
Get Fit to Speak Up! 4 surprising reasons why exercising can help your Public Speaking
Exercising and public speaking, two activities that are rarely associated. Therefore, it might surprise you to hear that exercise can help your public speaking in multiple ways. How physical exercise acts on the human body The impact of physical activity in the body goes way beyond the aesthetic benefits. Movement has a vital role in…
